The name of the actor portraying Osama bin Laden in a film about how the CIA and U.S. special forces killed the Al Qaeda leader is — or let’s say was — about as Top Secret Classified as real Pentagon data. But this column relished the challenge of hunting down the thespian’s identity.
Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow chose British-based actor Ricky Sekhon to portray bin Laden who, for more than a decade, was the most hunted man on the planet.
The movie, which has the working title Zero Dark Thirty, stars Jessica Chastain, Joel Edgerton, Mark Strong and Jason Clarke as intelligence and national security operatives who, last May, tracked down the 9/11 mastermind to his hideout in a walled compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
The picture has been shooting in Jordan and will soon re-locate to London.
But Sekhon’s work playing the Saudi-born terrorist is complete. He spent three weeks filming his scenes in the Middle East and has now returned to the UK where he lives with his wife.
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| British-based actor Ricky Sekhon has been picked to portray terrorist Osama bin Laden in a new film |
